Author: C. S. Forester
Year: 1938
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Historical fiction, Adventure, War/Military, Classic
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9780316289368
0316289361 |
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May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems "the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List."
Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train "poachers, bigamists, sheepstealers," and other landlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian coast of Spain, the crew is capable of staging five astonishing solo raids against the French. But the grisly prospect of defeat and capture looms for both captain and crew as the Sutherland single-handedly takes on four French ships.
This book is part of the "Hornblower Saga" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Lord Hornblower"
First published in 1946
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 | "Commodore Hornblower"
First published in 1945
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 | "Flying Colours"
First published in 1938
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 | "Beat to Quarters"
First published in 1937
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